--- title: In 2019 large protests in Hong Kong began against a bill that would… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: In 2019 large protests in Hong Kong began against a bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial; in 2020 Beijing introduced a national security law. Who acts: large protests, bill, suspects, Beijing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large protests, bill, suspects, Beijing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:22 # text = In 2019 large protests in Hong Kong began against a bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial; in 2020 Beijing introduced a national security law. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod 3 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 protests protest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Hong Hong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 15 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 suspects suspect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 28 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 security security NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | large protests in Hong | 2019 | | | | against a bill | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **allow** | would · perfect | a bill | suspects | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer suspect=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | suspects *not said here* | China | | mainland | | for trial | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to mainland=Destination | | 4 | **introduce** | past | Beijing | a national security law | | 2020 | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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